by Bernhard Tuider | Jun 30, 2023 | [ENGLISH], Education, Libraries, Movement
The Esperanto Museum of the Austrian National Library, founded in 1927, is one of the most traditional language museums in the world. The museum not only presents the Esperanto language and topics from the history of the Esperanto movement, it also deals with...
by The Eastern Door | Nov 14, 2022 | [ENGLISH], Education, Multilingualism
It’s no secret that many Indigenous languages around Turtle Island [= North America] have been threatened by colonialism, and Kanien’kéha – more widely known as the Mohawk language – is no exception. Only a few generations ago, many Kahnawa’kehró:non – the...
by Stephanie Witkowski | Apr 11, 2022 | [ENGLISH], Education
There are about 7000 languages in the world, and nearly half of them are at risk of disappearing. For the communities that wish to continue teaching, learning and using their languages, the loss is devastating. Language endangerment is also often the loss of history,...
by Vita Kogan, Stas Kapustin | Nov 22, 2021 | [ENGLISH], Education
Gamification – using game thinking and game mechanics for educational purposes – is building momentum. Several academic journals are dedicated to this exciting new trend: the International Journal of Game-based Learning, Serious Games and the Electronic Journal of...
by Anna Lowenstein | Nov 3, 2021 | [ENGLISH], Education
Esperanto is the world’s easiest language, but even learning an easy language requires time and a certain amount of effort. What makes an easy language easy? Mainly its very simple and regular grammar. Famously, the basic grammar of Esperanto consists of only 16 rules...
by Jorge Antonio Leoni de León | Aug 9, 2021 | [ENGLISH], Education
Costa Rica is a multilingual and multicultural society which, in addition to Spanish, uses several indigenous languages, one English-based creole and the Costa Rican Sign Language (LESCO), to which can be added the languages of immigrants who have arrived in the...
by Ellen Eddy | May 17, 2021 | [ENGLISH], Education, History
NASK (North American Summer Courses) was born in California in the 1970s after Catherine (“Cathy”) L. Schulze and her husband William (“Bill”) H. Schulze took part in an Esperanto course at North Adams State College, in Massachusetts, in 1969, led by Professor Duncan...
by Humphrey Tonkin | Apr 29, 2021 | [ENGLISH], Education, ESF (in English)
When Marjorie Boulton, died in Oxford a few years ago, the Esperanto movement lost one of its greatest advocates and most accomplished writers. Her career included many years as a teacher of teachers, both in the classroom and as head of a teacher training institution...
by Monika Hirmer, Giridhar Rao | Jan 1, 2021 | [ENGLISH], Education, Politics
Monika begins. Thinking of linguistic justice and decolonisation brings me back to one humid summer afternoon – it must have been around 2010-11 – when, sitting in the living room of an apartment-block in the South Indian city of Hyderabad, I was engrossed in my first...
by Jeremy Robinson | Nov 30, 2020 | [ENGLISH], Education
The team at the Culpeper Language Learning Center (Gustavus Adolphus College), along with volunteers from many different locations, are developing a series of free trivia games under the name of Major Trivia to help language learners develop linguistic and vocabulary...
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